It is truly startling that our Republican junior Senator, Scott Brown, has repeatedly pointed to Mitt Romney as the person he trusts most on economic issues. Just one month after Brown’s election to the U.S. Senate, he said to a room full of right-wingers at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference: “Let me give you a piece of advice. And it’s something that I think of regularly when I think of my challenges here in Washington. If you want to fix something that’s broken, especially dealing with economic policies, you have to listen to Governor Mitt Romney.”

That comment didn’t just slip out during Scott Brown’s special election honeymoon. He reiterated his support of Mitt Romney’s out-of-touch economic policies this week when he told Piers Morgan on CNN, “Well, I know that when it comes to dealing with the economic issues, there’s no one I would trust more than Governor Romney.”

We encourage you to post the YouTube video on your Facebook wall and tweet the link. Share the video with your family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors across Massachusetts. We have to make sure that voters know what the Brown-Romney economic policies mean for the vast majority of us who aren’t Mitt Romney’s friends who own NASCAR and NFL teams.

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Question: what is the status of this video in the context of the third party ads agreement? It certainly looks like a third party ad – will Warren have to pony up to a Brown charity for this? Or is it exempt, if no money was spent on an ad buy for it?

I had mistakenly thought that the MA GOP’s “Elizabeth goes to Hollywood” video might be a People’s Pledge problem, but as long as MA GOP wasn’t paying to show it anywhere, it’s not. People can produce all the videos they want, and they can post them for free on places like this. As long as we’re not getting any money from it, no problem.

In case there is any confusion whatsoever, this is just a YouTube video, not an advertisement. It’s not paid to run anywhere. As you put it in your comment, no money was spent on an ad buy; it’s not an ad. It’s up on our website, http://www.ProgressMass.org, and it’s on our YouTube page. We’ve promoted the video via our Twitter and Facebook accounts and e-mailed the YouTube link to our distribution list and, via press release (also on our website), to our media list. The rest is up to you. If you find the video compelling – if you find it as startling as we do how boldly Scott Brown embraces Mitt Romney’s failed economic record – share the video via your social media networks and e-mail it around. Spread the word, person to person, profile to profile, tweet to tweet.